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Ajith Perera is making progress with his campaign to improve facilities for the disabled in Sri Lanka. http://webhome.idirect.com/~sluna/idiriya.htm

He has also sent me a number of links to articles copied below.

I am aware of a tour by Cricketing Rotarians to visit a number of charitable projects in February 2007.

We are also aware of efforts by Graham Kettles and others doing post-tsunami aid in Sri Lanka -see www.srilankadirect.org for more details.

I hope to circulate a more regular newsletter on these matters. If you would like to be on the circulation list, please email tsunami@acumenbooks.co.uk - also use this address if you have material that you would like publicised. Some brief information may be mentioned in our Acumen or Audley newsletters but much more detail will be found in this new circulation.

Previous webpages about Ajith and his cricket books can be found at
http://www.acumenbooks.co.uk/perera3.htm
http://www.acumenbooks.co.uk/ajitintr.htm
http://www.acumenbooks.co.uk/perera2.htm

and even more links can be found at the end of this page

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AJITH's REPORTS (newest first)

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(1).      Visit the following Two Web sites.
        (i).      http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2006/04/02/fea21.html
        (ii).    http://www.dailynews.lk/2006/03/27/ - SELECT the TITLE: Disability no dead end.
        They give detailed reports of the VERY RARE prominent publicity
        this programme received from the TWO LEADING ENGLISH PAPERS,
        (a). Sunday Observer - of 02nd April (Their Second Article under Features)   and
        (b). Daily News - of Monday 27th March.

        Rather than me saying anything, these two articles will give you some feedback about the success I almost had SINGLE HANDED in planning and execution of ideas and thoughts I had in my mind into ACTION - Action that has ALREADY Started to produce BIG RESULTS in Sri Lanka - More about them later

(2) THREE PHOTOGRAPHS (to follow)

One photo - you will see me presenting the First Copy of a BROCHURE I did,
to my precious Mother, who is still the Anchor in my life's Ocea

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I am sure you would like to read this please. http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2006/03/19/bus02.html

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The THEME will be "Enabling Environments (EE) for All".

Program I have drawn-up will be in Three Parts.

(1) Seven Speakers (I shall be the first one) will speak from different sides and aspects how Enabling Environments will benefit that particular sector they are representing. Mine is a 20 minutes presentation using Power Point as well, emphasizing.the NEED and Who will benefit from Enabling Environments and series of Benefits they bring in, to a Wide Range of People that makes 40% of our population.

(2) This will be 30 Minutes and here we will Introduce IDIRIYA and its Aims and Endeavours, to the world!

(3) One hour RESULTS ORIENTED open discussion, where I will pose selected Questions, to see our objective of "making as much as EE a reality".

Taj Samudra Hotel, appreciates our endeavours and value it. Hence we are getting the Hotel + Refreshments FREE. If not for this generosity, we would not have had a way to get going at all !!

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Daily News, as you know, is our biggest and leading English Daily Paper,
for the entire Island. In its last but SPORTS PAGE, they have published my SPECIAL ARTICLE
as the page's leading Story and also BOXED it to catch the Eye and used Embolden Text
(These are sadly missing in the Internet Edition), to give the best prominence.

Here is the URL.

http://www.dailynews.lk/ Go to the Paper, then Select SPORTS from the left-side Column
and the Fourth Article "Access for All at Sporting Venues" is my one.

- - - - - From Ajith 12dec05 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Here is the URL to my Article and also the ADVERTISEMENT Idiriya did for Daily News of 03rd December - International Day of the disAbled. http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/12/03/

Then select FEATURES from the Left Side Main Menu.
It received TOP STORY States on Editorial (Centre) Page of Daily News - MAIN PAPER of Sri Lanka
and also wider publicity in Daily Mirror and Lankadeepa (Sinhala Daily).
It was also the FIRST OCCASION a SOFT AWARENESS IDIRIYA received in our country.

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Today's DAILY NEWS our leading English Daily here, carries a Photograph of mine receiving an award I got last Sunday evening at a World Congress held in Colombo, for my Voluntary dedicated Humanitarian Services to the disAbled people.

They have forgotten to include the caption on this Internet Edition, but the HARD COPY carries that.

ACCESS to this Website:
(1). Type www.dailynews.lk and click to access todays (02nd December) Daily News

(2) Under NEWS you will see as the last but one, a topic titled Life of Professor Anton Jayasuriya Honoured.

Please click that and you are into the proper Web site please

END OF AJITH's REPORTS

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